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Updates

  • Brown – 
  • Duke –
  • Florida – 
  • Johns Hopkins – 
  • Memorial University of Newfoundland –
  • NARCIS (Netherlands) – 
  • Scripps (Michaeleen) – Stella has made the following extensions to our local ontology:
    • tsri:InternalEntity class, as the "internal institutional class" that can be used to limit content on menu pages (such as the People page) to Scripps entities
    • tsri:UnknownPerson class that can be used to exclude individuals from search results
  • UCLA –
  • Weill Cornell – 
  • Cornell Ithaca – 

Implementation Fest planning

  • Will be held Thursday and Friday, April 25-26 in Boulder, Colorado, a 45-minute bus ride from Denver International Airport
  • Read the vivoweb.org blog entry, and the 2013 VIVO Implementation Fest page has information on transportation and hotels
  • registration page is now live – note that there is no registration fee for the workshop
  • A DRAFT schedule is available for preview on sched.org (including for mobile view) and as a Google Doc
  • There will be several ontology sessions at the event, including overviews of the existing ontology and recent CTSAconnect work on bringing the VIVO and eagle-i ontologies together.  Working sessions will address open issues where improvements or extensions have been requested
  • Nicholas Rejack will be offering his popular SPARQL 101 and SPARQL 201 sessions
  • Please add suggestions for areas of discussion here, which we will try to accommodate in the schedule as we develop it.
    • Research grants – what are the differences between grants, awards, and contracts?  How do NIH and NSF (and other funding agencies) model grants, so that VIVO can align data harvested from NIH RePorter or research.gov?
    • Distinctions among North American, British, continental European, Australian and New Zealand academic position types
    • The Open Annotation Data Model and its potential use to annotate researcher associations with areas of interest or expertise
    • ....
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  • community hands-on development day is planned as an optional additional activity on Saturday the 27th, e.g. working on internationalization
  • Alex has been looking into options for videoconferencing certain events where interest is strong from people who can't attend
    • Stony Brook is generously offering use of their multi-point H.323 bridge to support better-than-desktop quality video

Current open issues

WebEx Call-in Information

  • Topic: 2013 Bi-weekly VIVO Ontology Call
  • Date: Every 2 weeks on Wednesday, from Wednesday, January 23, 2013 with no end date
  • Time: 11:00 am, Eastern Standard Time (New York, GMT-05:00)
  • Meeting Number: 648 855 983
  • Meeting Password: (This meeting does not require a password.)

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